“There is no data that can be displayed in a pie chart, that cannot be displayed BETTER in some other type of chart.”
Quote by John Tukey
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John Tukey
John Tukey was an outstanding statistician, born on June 16, 1915, and passed away on July 26, 2000. He made significant contributions to the field of statistics, particularly in exploratory data analysis, non-parametric statistics, and computer science. more
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